"...do you know why I think George Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra."

I re-read my favourite Vonnegut book(A Man Without A Country) today during psych class. It's not that I don't find psychology interesting, rather it's fascinating, however, not so interesting is my psych Teacher's birth stories and hidden abstinence agenda. While reading Vonnegut I temporarily felt lifted from my naturally cynical temperament and I could almost see the humour in the sickness of the world. I am under the impression that his most famous book was Slaughterhouse Five, which I do enjoy, but really I enjoyed this short little almost stream-of-consciousness style novel.

After school I payed a visit to a good friend of mine who has been home sick for a week and brought her Tabouli, which is a vegan(or vegetarian depending on whether or not you include feta cheese or not)salad that even my meat eating friends like. Here's a recipe: http://www.greatpartyrecipes.com/tabouli-recipe.html . My friend's brother is a bit of an Aime dork, and so we watched a movie of his called My Neighbour Tortoro. It was both delightful and bizarre, which I supposed is a very common western perception of Japanese pop culture. Anyways, it's apparently well known, but regardless, worth watching.

Upon arriving home I watched an old favorite documentary called "Paperclips", which is always heart wrentching. This documentary is about a Holocaust memorial project that began in a small Southern(American) town and spread all over the world.


Paperclips preview:

My Neighbour Tortoro preview:


It's such a strange feeling to drift between seeing the beauty of the world seeing the ugliness a moment later, it's when you cry and smile all at once.